Random Singing Advice?

[Dakatsu]

So, I can sing very well, I can sustain notes for a long time, and I can sing along to songs with the correct note. I have one small problem - when I sing alone, kinda screwing around, I actually have a 24 interval scale. Like, I have all the normal notes, A-G, sharps and flats, but then I have a perfectly inbetween note, like exactly between A# and B, or right between E and F. Otherwise I sing, in my opinion, quite well (especially from where I began), and I don't screw up any notes (other than those exactly inbetween notes I just talked about). Any idea of how I could just weed them out?

[Drakona]

Well, believe it or not, music occasionally has a place for these out-of-tune notes. They're called Quarter Tones or maybe Blue notes, if you're not very precise.

Personally, I think music is learned, like language. What's out of tune in one context is part of the scale in another--it's all a question of what you listen to, and what you're told it means. For example, I have some Bach translated up a quarter tone on my ipod somewhere; it's physically painful for me to listen to, but the person who recorded it simply considered it 'interesting'. Then again, the wailing of an electronic guitar or a singer's vibrato--these are technically out of tune, but I enjoy them because I 'get' what they're saying.

So I guess what I'm saying is, if you want to train your ear, play and listen to good music. You grow fluent in what you practice.

[Dakatsu]

Well, believe it or not, music occasionally has a place for these out-of-tune notes. They're called Quarter Tones or maybe Blue notes, if you're not very precise.

Personally, I think music is learned, like language. What's out of tune in one context is part of the scale in another--it's all a question of what you listen to, and what you're told it means. For example, I have some Bach translated up a quarter tone on my ipod somewhere; it's physically painful for me to listen to, but the person who recorded it simply considered it 'interesting'. Then again, the wailing of an electronic guitar or a singer's vibrato--these are technically out of tune, but I enjoy them because I 'get' what they're saying.

So I guess what I'm saying is, if you want to train your ear, play and listen to good music. You grow fluent in what you practice.

Thanks for the input - I always wondered if the musical scale was built in or if there were different note intervals. I like quarter bends, but it does feel weird listening to quarter note music (I looked some up).

I guess I will just have to try to recognize the quarter notes, so I don't sing them.